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I had the pleasure of meeting Henri last year, and he talked about how long it's taken to get this idea off the ground. I like the idea, as I hate phone numbers

by nym 17y ago

I had the pleasure of meeting Henri last year, and he talked about how long it's taken to get this idea off the ground. I like the idea, as I hate phone numbers, and can easily remember something like http://henri.tel/ http://henri.tel/ At the time, I tried to get a quote for tom.tel but they were in their initial "companies only" stage. I believe Google or Facebook could more easily make a service like this successful, but I hope it takes off. Their main webpage is http://www.telnic.org/ http://www.telnic.org/ and they're in wide release now. Unfortunately, tom.tel is already taken ;-)

theBobMcCormick 17y ago
You can remember http://henri.tel http://henri.tel, but if this takes off, it's gonna be like the old AOL user ID's or most of the big webmail providrs where the namespace is so crowded that everyone ends up as http://henriloveshiscat182.tel http://henriloveshiscat182.tel. :-)
- sjs 17y ago
  Governments could begin programs to create namespaces for citizens who would like a domain. We already have TLDs for countries, and often for smaller divisions as well (i.e. provinces, states, etc), we could just keep adding sub domains for family name, and so on. e.g. I could be sami.samhuri.victoria.bc.ca. Of course, then people will move so we'd have to have everyone involved in a redirect scheme, there are likely other issues with the idea, but I think it's neat. With ipv6 we could each get a static IP as well.
  - theBobMcCormick 17y ago
    As you said, that'd be a bit of a pain when you move. Plus to me, the big question is do people (average people, not us HN geeks), actually want or care about something like this? BTW.. The individual static IPv6 addresses seems unlikely also. Because of the much larger address space provided by IPv6, there's a great deal of concern about the potential of massive increases in the size of the routing tables for Internet backbone routers. Because of this, one of the goals of the IPv6 Allocation and Assignment Policy is "Aggregation". Addressing is going to be assigned strictly on the basis of network topology to maximize the ability to to do route summarization. Relatedly, one of the policy goals for the IPv6 Allocation and Assignment Policy is that IP addresses are not to be considered private property. Unlike IPv4 where many non-ISP organizations "own" a block of IP addresses, in IPv6 the policy will be that IP addresses are only leased, never owned.

by nym 17y ago

theBobMcCormick 17y ago

You can remember http://henri.tel http://henri.tel, but if this takes off, it's gonna be like the old AOL user ID's or most of the big webmail providrs where the namespace is so crowded that everyone ends up as http://henriloveshiscat182.tel http://henriloveshiscat182.tel. :-)

sjs 17y ago
Governments could begin programs to create namespaces for citizens who would like a domain. We already have TLDs for countries, and often for smaller divisions as well (i.e. provinces, states, etc), we could just keep adding sub domains for family name, and so on. e.g. I could be sami.samhuri.victoria.bc.ca. Of course, then people will move so we'd have to have everyone involved in a redirect scheme, there are likely other issues with the idea, but I think it's neat. With ipv6 we could each get a static IP as well.
- theBobMcCormick 17y ago
  As you said, that'd be a bit of a pain when you move. Plus to me, the big question is do people (average people, not us HN geeks), actually want or care about something like this? BTW.. The individual static IPv6 addresses seems unlikely also. Because of the much larger address space provided by IPv6, there's a great deal of concern about the potential of massive increases in the size of the routing tables for Internet backbone routers. Because of this, one of the goals of the IPv6 Allocation and Assignment Policy is "Aggregation". Addressing is going to be assigned strictly on the basis of network topology to maximize the ability to to do route summarization. Relatedly, one of the policy goals for the IPv6 Allocation and Assignment Policy is that IP addresses are not to be considered private property. Unlike IPv4 where many non-ISP organizations "own" a block of IP addresses, in IPv6 the policy will be that IP addresses are only leased, never owned.